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Unequal Protection: Unequal Taxes
(Image: JR / Truthout) You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessings. —President Andrew Jackson It costs money to run a government, and …

Economic Update: Your Weekly Dose of Revolutionary Economics (Audio)
A revolutionary take on a massive set of problems: Capitalism's failings and today's global economic crisis. Every Saturday, Economics Professor Richard D. Wolff and guests discuss the current state …

Unequal Protection From Risk
(Image: JR / Truthout) When corporations gained the protections that had been written for persons in the United States, a substantial shift began in who bears what …

Unequal Regulation
(Image: JR / Truthout) There’s a side to regulation that most people don’t think about, and it has far-reaching effects if representatives of corporations are writing the …

Unequal Uses for the Bill of Rights
(Image: JR / Truthout) The statistic in this chapter’s epigraph is sobering indeed. It says corporations sought protection under the Fourteenth Amendment a hundred times more often …

Unequal Protection: Corporate Control of Politics
(Image: JR / Truthout) During the bruising primary election season of 2008, a right-wing group put together a ninety-minute hit-job on Hillary Clinton and wanted to run …

From Benetton to Murdoch: The Culture of Money, Shock and Schlock
The aestheticization of shock, difference and glamour misappropriates social consciousness.

Unequal Protection: Protecting Corporate Liars
(Image: JR / Truthout) The first direct shot across the bow of the doctrine of a corporation’s “right to lie” by using its “personhood” to claim First …

Unequal Protection: The Court Takes the Presidency
(Image: JR / Truthout) On December 12, 2000, the U.S. Supreme Court granted yet another gift to corporate power—and hammered yet another nail into the coffin of …

“Unequal Protection”: Corporations Go Global
(Image: JR / Truthout) People, at the time, generally weren’t all that concerned about the fate of the world’s dolphins. It was the last week of June …